Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
BERTHOLD AUERBACHWeak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.
More Berthold Auerbach Quotes
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We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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If you sound great in the practice room, you’re practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
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The world is the same everywhere.
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To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
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No mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning … for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be dazzled.
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Years teach us more than books.
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Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
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When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
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In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.
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Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
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When the foot of the’ mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.
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What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.
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With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.
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